Galatians 4:8-20

8But then indeed, not knowing 1God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not 2gods;

9but now, knowing 3God, but rather being known by 4God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

10Ye observe days and months and times and years.

11I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

12Be as I [am], for I also [am] as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

13But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

14and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of 5God, as Christ Jesus.

15What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.

16So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

17They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

18But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you —

19my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

20and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.